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J. MONZEL.

CLOTHES RACK ATTACHMENT TCR BEDST'EADS. Y No. 257,044. Patented Apr.25,14882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

JOHN MONZEIJ, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO MONZEL 8c PRICE, OF SAME PLACE.

CLOTHES-RACK ATTACHMENT FOR BEDSTEADS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Lettersvlatent No. 257,044, dated April 25, 1882.

Application iilcd January 25, 188:2.

(No model.)

To all whom itmay concern: f

Be it known that I, JOHN MoNzEL, ot the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Rack Attachments for Beadsteads and other Articles of Furniture; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clealyand exact description thereof, rel'ereneebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

lThis invention relates to a clothes-rack attachment to bedsteads; and it consists in the combination, with suitable guides secured to the back ofthe head-board or article, as indicated, ot' a clothes-rack arranged to slide upon such guides and adapted to be drawn out at either side or wholly concealed from View, as may be desired.

The invention is herein shown in its application to a bedstead.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevationof a bedstead head-boardhavinga clothesrack applied thereto in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a rear view ot' the headboard, showing the rack arranged to slide outward and inward horizontally between fixed guides. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse scction ot' the headboard, rack, and guides.

A is the headboard of a bedstead, made relatively high, after the prevailing style in these articles.

B is a clothesracl, of a well-known construction, consisting ot' the upper and lower parallel wooden bars, Z) b, joined at their ends,

andintermediate hooks,b1)',11avingproiections b2 b2, pivotally supported in the bars b b, and thereby adapted to swing into the same plane with and between the bars b b.

C C are fixed parallel horizontal guides, between which the rack B slides. As shown iu Fig. 3, the guides C are grooved at c, and the rack-bars b are provided with tongues b3, corresponding to the grooves c; but any other suitable means maybe provided to retain the rack in place within the guides. At each end of the rack B a handle, B', is provided, by which the rack may be' conveniently drawn out or pushed inward, in place of which a cord and tassel may be used, if preferred.

In the arrangement ot' the guides shown, which is a feature of my invention, the rack may be drawn out at either side of the bed, according to its location in the rooom. OE course when the rack is retracted the hooks b b are turned into line with the bars b and form no obstacle to the movement ot' the rack.

By means of the device shown a person may always have his clothes in convenient reach on rising, whatever the position of the bed. The rack is supported and changed in its position without marring the wall, and it is hidden when not in use.

Obviously the rack may, with equal advantage, in some of these respects, be similarly attached to other articles of furniture, as a wardrode or hatrack, in the latter case the capacity of the hat-rack being temporarily enlarged thereby when such result is desirable.

InsteadV of sliding, the rack may, though' less desirable, be pivoted to the back of the bedstead or other article and swing over inward and outward, suitable stops being provided to arrest it in both its extended and retracted positions.

Of course the rack may consist of a broad slide having the hooks pvoted on its front face.

I claim as my invention- In combination with a bedstead head-board, the fixed guides C C, extending from side to side, as shown,'and the rack B, provided with pivoted hooks, and adapted to be drawn out at either side, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I atlix my signature in presence ot' two witnesses.

JOI-IN MONZEL.

Witnesses:

M. E. DAYTON, Jnssn COX, Jr. 

